CalTechNews - Physics http://www.caltechnews.com Tue, 22 May 2012 21:25:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Cloak of Invisibility http://www.caltechnews.com/article/cloak_of_invisibility It may not be intuitive, but a coating of reflective metal can actually make something less visible, engineers at Stanford and UPenn have shown. They have created an invisible, light-detecting device that can "see without being seen." CalTechNews Mon, 21 May 2012 20:22:39 +0100 Scientists Plan $1b Ghost Town http://www.caltechnews.com/article/scientists_plan_1b_ghost_town A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people CalTechNews Sun, 13 May 2012 23:13:40 +0100 A New Generation of Ultra-Small and High-Precision Lasers Emerges http://www.caltechnews.com/article/a_new_generation_of_ultra-small_and_high-precision_lasers_emerges Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team CalTechNews Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:03:22 +0100 Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle http://www.caltechnews.com/article/scientists_find_long-sought_majorana_particle Scientists at TU Delft's Kavli Institute and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM Foundation) have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle CalTechNews Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:10:24 +0100 Magnetic Field Researchers Target 100-Tesla Goal http://www.caltechnews.com/article/magnetic_field_researchers_target_100-tesla_goal Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have just met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments CalTechNews Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:56:39 +0100 Laser Fires Most Powerful Laser Blast In History http://www.caltechnews.com/article/laser_fires_most_powerful_laser_blast_in_history The United States' National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California has fired the most powerful laser in history, a record-breaking 2-megajoule shot CalTechNews Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:28:48 +0100 Smartphones and Laptops 1,000 Times Faster? http://www.caltechnews.com/article/smartphones_and_laptops_1,000_times_faster_ Thanks to research performed at the University of Pittsburgh, a physical basis for terahertz bandwidth (THz, or 1 trillion cycles per second) -- the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave light -- has now been demonstrated CalTechNews Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:03:03 +0100 More Powerful Electric Cars? http://www.caltechnews.com/article/more_powerful_electric_cars_ Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly CalTechNews Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:45:32 +0100 Rare Element Found in Three Ancient Stars http://www.caltechnews.com/article/rare_element_found_in_three_ancient_stars Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium -- byproducts of the Big Bang. Some 300 million years later, the very first stars emerged, creating additional chemical elements throughout the universe CalTechNews Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:36:30 +0100 Working Transistor Consists Of Single Atom http://www.caltechnews.com/article/working_transistor_consists_of_single_atom The smallest transistor ever built -- in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built -- has been created using a single phosphorus atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University CalTechNews Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:35:51 +0100